Abubakar Shekau

Abubakar Shekau (1980-) is the Emir of Boko Haram. The leader of the strongest terrorist group in Nigeria, Shekau took over command from Mohammed Yusuf after Yusuf's 2009 death.

Biography
Abubakar Shekau was a Kanuri from Niger, but he studied Islam under a traditional cleric in Nigeria in the village of Shekau, Yobe State. He married one of the four wives of Boko Haram leader Mohammed Yusuf and became a Salafi jihadist like Yusuf, and in 2009 he took over Boko Haram. He was responsible for the kidnapping of 276 Nigerian schoolgirls from Chibok, and planned to sell them as sex slaves.